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BCRF: Saoirse Ronan
Posted on October 17, 2011 | 1 CommentSaoirse Ronan is an Oscar-nominated American-Irish actress and rising star in Hollywood famous for her roles in The Lovely Bones, Hanna, and Atonement. She packs a lot of screen presence for... -
Academic Fraud in Toller Research
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe 2011 study A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds is a shoddy piece of work and a disgrace to the scientific method. The world-wide population of Cavalier King Charles... -
COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 20 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get... -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 6 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of... -
Monitoring the Chatter
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 15 CommentsThere’s nothing more rewarding as a blogger than to have a reader use your blog as a resource to add intelligently to a discussion elsewhere on the Internet. BorderWars reader... -
Improve the Breed?
Posted on September 19, 2011 | 8 CommentsIf the highest and best goal of eugenics is to improve the genetic composition of a breed, what–if anything–can we say has been improved in the pedigree dog in the... -
2011 National Sheepdog Finals
Posted on September 18, 2011 | 6 CommentsToday is the last day of the 2011 National Sheepdog Finals at the bucolic Strang Ranch in picturesque Carbondale, Colorado. If all goes well the National Finals might return here... -
For They Know Not What We’ve Done
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 9 CommentsDogs forgive us for they know not what we’ve done. It is a blessing that our dogs don’t know how sick they have become at our hands and thus don’t... -
Name the Oracle
Posted on September 9, 2011 | 8 CommentsRead the following blurb, determine who the critic writer/journalist/filmmaker in question is, and make an educated guess on when the article describing this critic’s efforts was written. An institution founded... -
BCRF: Michael Keaton
Posted on August 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsRich and famous actor Michael Keaton is best known for playing talented but eccentric anti-heroes with obsessive compulsive personalities, most notably Bruce Wayne in Batman and the titular BeetleJuice. It’s no wonder...
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